According to the proposal in the government's budget, around 830,000 people already receive a tax reduction of at most SEK 137 per month at the end of the year. This applies to housing in a number of municipalities in the northern and western parts of Sweden, in what is called support areas A and B.
"Carefully positive" is the opinion of the Left Party about the tax cut. But only then as a second step
- Prio one would have been for the state to instead allocate resources to these areas to prevent all the savings happening. These are municipalities that are forced to have high taxes due to emigration and aging population, says V's economic policy spokesperson Ulla Andersson.
From the Swedish Democrats' Oscar Sjöstedt, the noises are similar:
- The proposal for reduced income tax is interesting, but we will not support it in Parliament. We believe that the best way to increase the purchasing power of sparsely populated households is to lower gasoline taxes instead.
Christian Democrats Jakob Forssmed thinks that tax cuts are generally good and therefore do not want to reject the proposal. At the same time, he says it becomes problematic when the state starts treating municipalities with different income tax rules:
- The question is whether it is the right method to make it attractive to live in the countryside. After all, there are several sparsely populated and rural municipalities where residents are not included in the proposal, such as Emmaboda and Herrljunga.
The moderates do not want to comment on the government's tax cut.